Burner.



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BURNER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 8, 1909.

Patented Feb. 11, 1910.

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BURNER.

Patented Feb. 1, tltl itll Application filed September 8, 1909. Serial No. 516,725.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, COMMODORE C. Foorn and HENRY W. Foo'rn, citizens of the United. States, residing at Memphis, in the county of Shelley and State of Tennessee, have invent ed certain new and useful Improvements in Burners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to oil burners especially adapted for use in connection with crude oil, and the principal object of the same is to provide a novel arrangement of generator and feeding pipes combined with a spreader'plate and cap whereby a perfect combustion ofthe crude fuel will be obtained with the resultant intense heat. Y

In carrying out the objects of the invention generally stated above, it will be understood, of course, that the essential features of the same are necessarily susceptible of changes in details and structural arrange ments, certain preferred and practical enibodiinents of which are .shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure l is a central vertical sectional view'of the improved burner. Fig. 2 is a top plan View of the spreader plate therefor. Fig. 3 is a similar view of a cap for the burner. Fig. 4c is a side view of the cap.

.Fig. 5 is a side view of a modified burner, the

cap being removed. Fig. 6 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 7 is a central vertical sectional iew taken substantially on the line 7-7, 6, the cap being shown in position. Fig. 8 is a side view of the cap used in the modified form of burner.

Referring to said drawings by nunie 'als. 1 designates a flat cylindrical generator the top surface of which has two spaced apart internally threaded openings 2-4-3. An upstanding pipe 4 projects from the opening 2 and has a threaded engagement. with the flanged endot' an elbow coupling 5 which in turn connects with a supply pipe 6 having a controlling valve 7. said pipe 6 being in communication with a source offuel supply not shown. A pipe 8 projects from the opening 3 of the generator 1, said pipe 8 being similar to the pipe 4. A protecting sleeve 9 surrounds each pipe 4 and 8, said sleeves having their lower ends resting on the top surface of the generator 1 and their upper ends forming supports for a spreader plate 10 provided with openings 11 and 12 for said pipes 4: and 8.

The spreader plate 10 has a central opening 13 which is surrounded by an upstanding annular flange 1.4 and is also provided with ribs 15 which radiate from said flange and impart strength to the plate. Said plate 10 is also provided with a plurality of small openings 16 which are scattered about the same. i

The pipe 3 has its upper end connected with the flanged end of a twoway coupling 17, the flanged end of the coupling 17 and the similar end of the coupling 5 serve to clamp the plate 10 to the upper ends of the sleeves 9. A pipe extension 18 projects from the inner end of the coupling '17 and ere tends over the central opening of the plate 10 and has a drip nozzle 1 9 mounted ther on through which fuel is dropped through said central opening of the plate 10 and into the central concavity 20 of the top of the generator 1. Another pipe 21 projects from the opposite end of the coupling 17, said pipe being provided with a controlling valve 22 and communicating with a storage tank (not shown) to which fuel may be fed from the generator 1.

A cap 23 havingan annular flange 2 L pro vided with oppositely disposed slots 25 is adapted to be supported uponthe plate 10 with its slots straddling the pipes 6 and 21. Said cap has a plurality of air supplying openings 26 in its top.

The operation is as follows: Fuel admitted through the supply pipes 6 and 4 'to the generator it andv from. the generator through pipe 8 to the pipe 18 and nozzle 19 and drops from said nozzle 19 through the central opening of plate 10 into the con caved portion 20 of the generator 1, where it is igi'iited. The burning fuel on the generator highly heats the plate 10 and also the pipes t5 and 18 as well the generator 1 which vaporizes the fuel so that the same is delivered. to the portion 20 of the generator in a vapor which combined with Oxygen received through the opening of the cap 28 and plate 1.0, assures a complete combustion of the vapor so that the maximum of heat will'be obtained.

As will, of course, be understood, when desired, a portion of the fuel may be diverted. to and through the pipe 21 by me -cate with the generator 30 through the openings 31-32 in the top thereof. The upper ends of the pipes 28-29 are open, the pipe 28 being in communication with the valve controlled supply pipe 33, and the pi e 29 being in communication with the discharge pipe '34 which has an extension 35 provided with a nozzle 36'through which a drip opening 37 is formed. The plate 27 is rovided with a central opening 39 from w ich the strengthening ribs 40 radiate, the inner ends of said ribs forming a seat for the outturned annular flange 41 of the funnel 42 which has 'a wedgingengagement in the central opening 39 of the plate 37 and guides the fuel from the drip nozzle to the cup-shaped depression 43 of the generator 30 where said fuel is ignited. The generator has a valve controlled pipe communication 44 with a storage tank 45 by means of which a portion of the fuel ma be diverted to said tank. The plate 37 is provided with a plurality of openings 46, similar to the openings described in connection with the preferred form of the invention.

The cap 47 has its annular flange 48 provided with the cut-out portions 49 so that said flange may be readily fitted overthe supply pipe 33, and also to supply air to the interior of the cap. The top of the cap is provided with openings 50 similar to the openings of the cap described in connection with the preferred form of the invention.

In both forms of the invention, the top of the cap is fiat sothat cooking utensils may rest thereon While their contents are being. cooked by the heat. from the burner.

It will also be seen that the ribs of the spreader plate radiate from the center opening therein and terminate adjacent the outer edge of the plate, so that the cap may be mounted on the plate and surround the above said generator and outer ends of said ribs, and be revented from displacement relative to sai plate by cont-act with the outer ends of said ribs.

What we claim as our invention is l. A burner comprising a generator. a fuel supply pipe therefor, a discharge pipe for the generator, a spreader plate supported rovided with a central opening and also with radiatin air openings, reinforcing ribs radiating rom the central opening of said plate, a funnel projecting through the central opening of the spreader plate and having an annular flange seated on said ribs, means for delivering fuel from said discharge pipe through said funnel to the generator, and a cap fitted over said plate and provided with a flat top through which air openings are formed.

2. A burner comprising a generator, fuel feeding and discharging means for said generator, a spreader plate supported above said generatorand provided with a fuel opening and also, with air supplying oacnings, ribs on said plate which radiate rom said fuel opening, and a cap removably fitted over said plate and prevented from displacement thereon by said ribs.

3. In a device of the character described,

the combination with a generator, of inlet i and outlet pi )cs therefor, a spreader plate engaging sair pipes, said spreader plate,

being provided with a central opening and a plurality of reinforcing radiating ribs, and a movable cap resting upon the spreader plate and beingprevented from displace- "ment relative to said plate by contacting ,with the outer ends of said ribs.

In testimony whereof we hereunto aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

COMMODORE O. FOOTE. HENRY W. FOOTE.

lVitnesses to signature of Commodore C. Foote: H. H. FULLER, ULAH Prr'rs.

Witnesses to signature of Henry W. Foote:

'H. A. Future, C. A. NASH. 

